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Richmond Shakespeare serves up a storm…https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/richmond-shakespeare-serves-up-a-storm/
https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/richmond-shakespeare-serves-up-a-storm/#respondThu, 02 May 2013 17:31:19 +0000http://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/?p=96]]>Quite a few people packed the Carriage House Lawn at Maymont Park last night (May Day, actually) for a FREE performance of Wm. Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Let me be the first to apologize if you missed it. I’m sorry. Very. Because you missed quite the show. This is the third year that Richmond Shakespeare and Maymont have been generous enough to bestow this free gift on all of us. I watched last night as this great company, garbed in delicious, late 1800’s wardrobe (just a little steampunk) thundered and spirited around the stage.

I like to arrive early to events, well, actually I always like to arrive early. But at an event, a lot of cool stuff happens before most of the audience even gets there. As a photographer, I like to snap pics when the scene is less hectic. I can catch the details then, the things that get lost in the shuffle later on. It was a spare but lovely set, the sun came out for a while, and the cast worked out the kinks in street clothes with a few accessories. Fun stuff! Every part seemed perfectly cast, and it was fun picking out the lines from this play that have made it into our everyday language. If you missed it, don’t make that same mistake next year. And, to make up for it, you should at least catch Richmond Shakespeare at Agecroft this summer. The Comedy of Errors and Othello are on tap, and having seen Henry V there a few summers past, I can tell you that Shakespeare at Agecroft is a beautiful thing. It is just very RIGHT.

]]>https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/richmond-shakespeare-serves-up-a-storm/feed/0IMG_4353wendymcphailphotographyImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageEngagement Session B & Lhttps://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/engagement-session-b-l/
https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/engagement-session-b-l/#respondWed, 24 Apr 2013 02:59:28 +0000http://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/?p=62]]>So much fun celebrating the engagement of this sweet couple! Congratulations to you both!]]>https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/engagement-session-b-l/feed/0IMG_1312wendymcphailphotographyImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageFamily Session- B and Rhttps://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/family-session-b-and-r/
https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/family-session-b-and-r/#respondTue, 26 Mar 2013 04:37:42 +0000http://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/?p=41]]>I had so much fun photographing this mom and daughter team at a local bed and breakfast! They brought great hats, great attitudes and the sun was shining. I love finding beautiful backdrops like this to add color and life to my photos!]]>https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/family-session-b-and-r/feed/0IMG_2117wendymcphailphotographyImageImageImageDay Trip to Jamestown, VAhttps://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/day-trip-to-jamestown-va/
https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/day-trip-to-jamestown-va/#respondTue, 26 Mar 2013 03:59:36 +0000http://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/?p=7]]>On a sunny afternoon, close to the start of Spring, we decided to head to Jamestown for a ferry ride. It was one of the warmest days for a while, and I had just recovered from a nasty bout of the flu, which kept me isolated in my room for almost a week. I had had enough of the indoors and wanted some fresh air, so we hopped in the car for a mini adventure. The ferry was fun and the birds were lovely, but we happened upon this plantation in Surry, on the other side of the river from Jamestown. Smith’s Fort Plantation was built in 1785 by a family named Faulcon. The plantation itself was named because Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas fame) had built a fort on the property in 1609. YES. 1609. You can actually drive back to the site of the fort and the house that is there now is not the first in that spot. Apparently several structures have been built on the land, and the current house now holds a museum of sorts and is the property of Preservation Virginia. The land itself was given to John Rolfe by Chief Powhatan himself as a dowry when Rolfe and Pocahontas were married. We were there late in the afternoon, it had already closed for the day, and didn’t go inside, but we wandered around outside and the resulting pictures show a lovely house with a small, fenced garden in back. We found a lovely spot to take some natural light pictures, and headed up the road to Bacon’s Castle…]]>https://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/day-trip-to-jamestown-va/feed/0IMG_2560wendymcphailphotographyImageImageImageImageSmith’s Fort Plantation, Surry, VAhttps://wendymcphailphotography.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/smiths-fort-plantation-surry-va/
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